Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Punta de Burica in Panama

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Punta de Burica in Panama. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.22 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/18 / 2018-04-24 01:25:01 / April 24, 2018 @ 1:25 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:25:01 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.8023 West, latitude 7.9961 North, depth = 7.22 km. Unique identifier: us1000dtef. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dtef.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Volcán, Golfito, Corredor (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ESE of Punta de Burica, Panama. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.8023° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.9961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km ESE of Punta de Burica, Panama	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-24 01:25:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-21 03:44:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	298	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.577	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dtef	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dtef	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dtef,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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